Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-24 Thread Matan Peled
Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: > As long as they dont know your password, username and it isnt an easy > dictonary password. > (which you said it isnt), you should be quite secure enuf :) I see these all > the time on my > companys servers and we are yet to get anyone even get the right username. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
As long as they dont know your password, username and it isnt an easy dictonary password. (which you said it isnt), you should be quite secure enuf :) I see these all the time on my companys servers and we are yet to get anyone even get the right username. I dont know if it works on gentoo as i

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Byron Pezan
Rumen Yotov wrote: > Antonio Coralles wrote: > > >>I'm running sshd on my personal computer to be able to log in from >>different machines. To tighten security without disabling pam i've >>created a user which is not in groop weel, and configured ssh to accept >>logins for this user only. By the

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Antonio Coralles wrote: >I'm running sshd on my personal computer to be able to log in from >different machines. To tighten security without disabling pam i've >created a user which is not in groop weel, and configured ssh to accept >logins for this user only. By the way all passwords on my system

RE: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> i would like to know if sshd is really secure as long as nobody who > shouldn't has the correct username and password. It is as secure as long as a) your passwords cannot be cracked and b) you run the lastest version of sshd. That given, there's haxor scripts out there that attempt to hit sshd

[gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Antonio Coralles
I'm running sshd on my personal computer to be able to log in from different machines. To tighten security without disabling pam i've created a user which is not in groop weel, and configured ssh to accept logins for this user only. By the way all passwords on my system are well choosen and should